The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.